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by mhd 6y ago
Note that I was only talking about the uniformity of the UI here. Stability-wise, every DOS Windows was pretty bad. Win98SE's toolbar were those big mozilla-ish ones, right, with both text and icon and no button border? Other than that
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by mhd 6y ago
I'm more averse to people not using their DB to their full extent than whether they're doing that with an ORM or by just writing overly simplistic SQL. Granted, it's a bit more common with ORMs, especially if it's all Ac
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by mhd 6y ago
As with many things, I think from a pure UI perspective every Windows/Office release made things worse. Win95 was pretty solid, even improved on a few things that they took from the state of art at that time (Nextstep, Classic Mac, OS&
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by mhd 6y ago
Speaking of Icons, I love that they spent considerable time to optimze those[1], including their own vector format so that they can store it in the metadata of the file, so that displaying large folders with unique files would be speedy. [1
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by mhd 6y ago
XEmacs is pining for the fjords.
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by mhd 6y ago
Bandcamp is 15%, Leanpub is 20%, right? (For sales alone, leanpub also seems to be a lot about the publication process, i.e. how to get the book made, not just selling a finished PDF/epub) Another interesting shop I've discovered
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by mhd 6y ago
Can I still use the original Bourne shell macros? If so, there's still hope…
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by mhd 6y ago
Only V8, which collected a lot of the people formerly working on the StrongTalk VM. JS is mostly influenced by Scheme, Java and infernal visions.
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by mhd 6y ago
SmallTalk is great, right?
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by mhd 6y ago
But at least you could get a unified messenger for those services way back when. The user experience these days is much, much worse, for almost no technical benefit (yay, audio messages, great…). Separate apps, (mostly) required to have a p
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by mhd 6y ago
They don't produce richer text, they might write in a richer format, if you can all it that. Non-printing notes/comments were quite common in the DOS days, similar to the "front matter" in the screen shots, or what peo
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by mhd 6y ago
Alas, I also forgot poor Yorick. (And combining both Wirth and Shakespeare, technically speaking Oberon is a valid first name, too) There's also Chuck, Idris, Karel, Joy, Tom and arguably Euclid, Janus and Mercury. The jury's out
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by mhd 6y ago
I see, that's what I thought. No problem with naming languages after people, but it's easier if it's an homage to a certain person. Common first and last names alone often point to confusing people, and there might be a certa
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by mhd 6y ago
What about "Ada", "Miranda" or "Haskell"? First names, too, albeit ones much less common these days. ("Linda" the language isn't even in that category, popularity-wise, although the source of the
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by mhd 6y ago
Isn't it mostly one sea shanty that's making the rounds on TikTok? Just like we had Dreams being catapulted into the Billboard charts again, not the whole Fleetwood Mac oeuvre?
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by mhd 6y ago
But think of the react video course makers and router re-implementors!
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by mhd 6y ago
Even that leaves a lot of room. If you can fix certificate problems, any simple browser (even text mode lynx) can still do a lot these days. But let's go really "modern", i.e. being able to access web applications without mis
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by mhd 6y ago
Kind of funny? The US branch of libertarianism ain't exactly left wing.
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by mhd 6y ago
I don't read a lot about it on HN, but at least the threema client[0] is open-source, too, and the servers are in Switzerland. [0]: https://threema.ch/en/open-source
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by mhd 6y ago
Or they could retrofit the existing AI with a state of the art one. "Super Pursuit Mode, KITT!" "Looking for Proper Fursuit Mods on www.cyberfurries4u.org, Michael"
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by mhd 6y ago
I'm all for self-improvement (no to self-optimization, though), but I find phrasing this in corporate productivity terms to be somewhat problematic. Six Sigma Your Life?
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by mhd 6y ago
German organic labels can get pretty weird, though. Your regular EU label still allows castrating piglets without anaesthetization. And if I remember correctly, the minimum requirements about how many you can keep per square meter aren&#x27
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by mhd 6y ago
That's one of the biggest issues some developers have: We pride ourselves in the wisdom to see "bloat", but as you say, a lot of complexity arose out of necessity, even if the developer themselves doesn't need it. Privil
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by mhd 6y ago
Sure, as do most TUIs and a lot of web apps. I'm merely suggesting a hack that goes along with this hack, not the foundation technology for a mono-binary Office clone. Re-inventing the UI wheel seems somewhat common within the Go and R
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by mhd 6y ago
Regarding consensus desktop APIs, maybe it's time to re-invent/-introduce Win32s ;) (Although adding that to the library would add considerable bloat, and cross-platform runtime dynamic linking or a "dynamic polyfill" mi
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by mhd 6y ago
Funny, I just recently found out that there's a replacement for freshmeat, which I visited daily (or more, when bored) in ancient days gone by. So right now it's in my rotation again and I have discovered some interesting new appl
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by mhd 6y ago
My first programming "job" (i.e. something I did for someone else, no money was exchanged) was removing all sound code from GORILLA.BAS so that it could be used in the back row of an otherwise boring class.
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by mhd 6y ago
Did you do this for WSL2? I had to do some firewall shenanigans before that worked for me.
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by mhd 6y ago
I agree with the DevOps theory, but precisely for the opposite reason. People wrote all kinds of automated tools etc. to replace weird BOFH shell scripts. Almost no syntactical improvements upon Bourne sh (which was a weird Algol-like in C-
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by mhd 6y ago
If that's uncooked pasta, that's about 650+ calories, right? If the sauce ain't too heavy and that's the main dish of the day, even without sports that shouldn't be a big issue.

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